R help - Aug 2007 - 'font' argument in "text" function unevaluated

R-help,

I have a plot in which I use the following:

text(1 , 2, expression(61*degree ~ paste("N")), font = 2)

but the "expression(61*degree ~ paste("N"))" will not come
out in font
= 2.
However "cex=2" will work.

What is the problem?


Thanks in advance.

> version
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platform       i386-pc-mingw32             
arch           i386                        
os             mingw32                     
system         i386, mingw32               
status                                     
major          2                           
minor          5.1                         
year           2007                        
month          06                          
day            27                          
svn rev        42083                       
language       R                           
version.string R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27)